Which colleges have the "gunners" in their pre-med classes?

bluedevilmike
Tue, 11 Jan 2011 21:06:36 +0000

Re #34: It seems like a straightforward enough system for a central clearinghouse like AMCAS or LSDAS to calibrate, actually – as long as students are applying from schools with lots of applicants.

Step 1: Convert hypothetical LSAT scores into hypothetical GPAs – e.g. assign a 175+ to be a 4.0.

Step 2: Count up the number of each LSAT score from each school. For example, you could say that School #1 gets ten 175s, while school #2 only has 1.

Step 3: In that case, School #1 is allowed to give out ten 4.0 GPAs, while school #2 is only allowed to give out 1.

Step 4: Assign those 4.0s to the top ten GPAs from School #1, regardless of the particular LSAT scores of those specific candidates.

In other words, a candidate who does very well on a standardized test does two things – (1) he “earns” a higher GPA allowed to his school, and (2) of course he also gets his high LSAT score.



This works a lot clearer in my head.

Anyway, there are two obvious problems. (1) Calibrating across major, and (2) what to do for schools with very few applicants. Not sure about these.